Shirt.



R. BARTELL.

SHIRT.

APPLICATION FILED DBO. 27, 1910.

Patented Jan. 14, 1913;

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

REINHOLD BARTELL, 0F NEWARK, JERSEY, ASSIGNOR ATO BARTELL IMPROVED SHIRTCOMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., lA CORPORATION 0Fr NEW YORK.

SHIRT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 14, 1913.

Application filed December 27, 1910. Serial No. 599,426.

pensive nature having novel and improved means capable of engagementwith trousers or the like to hold the same in proper position, theengagement with the trousers or the like serving to efl'ectually preventa pull or hiking up of the shirt as is generally the case in ordinaryshirts.

The invention consists in certain novel features of the construction,and combinations and arrangements of the several parts of the improvedshirt, whereby certain important advantages are attained, and the deviceisy rendered simpler, less expensive and otherwise better adapted andmore convenient for use, all as will be hereinaftei fully set forth.

The novel features of the invention will be carefully defined in theclaim.

In order that my improvements may be the betterl understood, I will nowproceed Ito describe the same with reference to the accompanyingdrawings, wherein- Figure 1 is a front view of a shirt con-- structcd inaccordance with my invention; Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmentary viewillustrating certain details of the trouser engaging means; Fig. 3 is asectional view taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2, looking in thedirect-ionof the arrow; Fig. 4 is a sectional view taken on the line 4 4 of Fig.2; Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 2, looking from the inside of theshirt; Fig. 6 is a view similar to Fig. 2 illustrating the trouserengaging means in an incompleted state; and Fig. T

is a fragmentary view in perspective showing a shirt constructed inaccordance with the invention in operative engagement with trousers.

In these. views, 10 denotes a dress shirt which may be of any ordinaryor preferred construction but herein shown as a coat shirt havingsecured to the inner face thereof by the stitching 12 at predeterminedpoints about the waist line, the vertically extended reinforcementstrips 11. Vhile the rein forcement strips 11 are herein shown assecured to the shirt proper by stitching 12, it 1s thought to be obviousthat such reinforcement strips may be glued or otherwise secured to theshirt in lieu of such stitching.

To the outer surface of the shirt l0 above each of the reinforcementstrips 11 is secured the vertically extended rectangular strip 13 suchattachment of the strip with the shirt being through the medium of theparallel lines of stitching 14 closely adjacent toV each other andpositioned substantially centrally of such strip 13 and terminating apredetermined distance from the opposite ends thereof. After theattachment of the reinforcement strips 11 and the outer strip 13 to theshirt, a slot or elongated cut 15 is made through both of the strips andthe shirt and the free marginal portions 16 of the outer strip 13 arepassed through the slot 15 and secured to the inner face of the shirt bythe. stitching 17 as is particularly shown in Fig. 5. Ihile the freemarginal portions 16 may be passed through the slot 15 in any desiredmanner it has been found t0 be of great advantage to grasp the ends ofthe strip 13 at the points indicated as a and to force these pointsthrough the slot 15 and then give an opposite pull thereto whichoperation causes a proper adjustment of the marginal portions 16 of thisstrip 13 as shown in Fig. 5. This folding of the strip 13 produces arounded edge, which is greatly to be desired in a device of thischaracter. After this operation the elongated slot or opening is dividedinto button-holes by the cords 18 or folded strips 19 and it is thoughtto be obvious that the slot may be subdivided into as many button-holesas the requirements of practice may dictate.

In Fig. 7, the operation of the invention is thought to be fullydisclosed. In this view 22 denotes the trousers provided with a button21 or other suitable attaching means which is adapted to be accommodatedwithin any one of the button-holes 20 hereinbefore referred to and it isthought to be obvious.

ton 21 within the requisite button-hole 20.

This engagement of the shirt with the trousers or the like whileaffording an effective support for the trousers also makes the shirt Kprinciples and spirit of the invention, and

for thisreasonl do not desire to be understood as limiting myself tot-he precise formation and arrangement of the several parts, as hereinset forth, in carrying out my invention in practice.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is:

A .shirt having a strip secured to one side thereof and a second stripsecured to the opposite side of the shirt above the first named strip,said shirt and strips having a slot there through, the marginalport-ions of one of the strips being drawn through the slot and securedto the exposed face of the second strip and means for subdividing theslot into a series of button holes.

Signed at Nen7 York7 in the county of New York and State of New York,this 23rd day of December, A. D. 1910.

REINHOLD BARTELL.

Witnesses:

GEO. A. SENIOR, WM. O. WOLF.

.Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

